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Sturm und Drang
Also Known As Storm and Stress
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Sturm und Drang (Storm and Stress) was a proto-Romantic movement in German literature and music active from the late 1760s to the early 1780s. Reacting against Enlightenment rationalism, its writers prized intense subjective emotion, individual genius and nature over reasoned restraint. The young Johann Wolfgang von Goethe's 1774 novel The Sorrows of Young Werther, a story of hopeless love and suicide, became the movement's most widely read work before Goethe himself moved toward the classicism of his later Weimar years.
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Period, From (Year)The cited source places the start in the late 1760s without naming a single year; 1767 is given here as a commonly used approximate start within that range. Period, To (Year)The cited source places the end in the early 1780s without naming a single year; 1785 is given here as a commonly used approximate close within that range. Cross-Tradition Connections
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Goethe's early novel The Sorrows of Young Werther (1774) is regarded as one of Sturm und Drang's most influential and representative works, though he later moved toward the classicism of his Weimar period.
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occurred between the late 1760s and early 1780s
1. Sturm und Drang (Wikipedia)
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The story of hopeless love and eventual suicide presented in Goethe's sentimental novel Die Leiden des jungen Werthers (1774) is an example of the author's tempered introspection regarding his love and torment.
The Sorrows of Young Werther (Wikipedia)
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